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Written by Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah on 2025-01-28 at 07:33

From the language learning perspective the name of Gulf of Mexico is interesting.

Most Latin alphabet based languages went with x regardless of pronunciation.

But Estonian and Slovene have hh and h instead of x/ks to preserve the sound as best as they can.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190#map=5/25.28/-89.91

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